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Deploying Next.js to Cloudflare Workers with OpenNext
What I learned moving kevintrinh.dev off Vercel and onto Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext — the tradeoffs, the gotchas, and the parts that just work.
Kevin TrinhApril 22, 2026All Posts
I rewrote my Discord bot in Go — RAM dropped 95%
After my Python bot started OOMing on a 1-vCPU VM, I rewrote it in Go. Here's the side-by-side and why the same logic now runs in 6 MiB instead of 120.
Kevin TrinhApril 8, 2026
Getting Started with DevfolioX
Learn how to set up and customize your DevfolioX portfolio in minutes. This guide covers installation, configuration, and deployment.
Kevin TrinhJanuary 15, 2026
MDX components & syntax highlighting
A live showcase of the custom MDX components available in DevfolioX articles — callouts, YouTube embeds, figures, tweets, kbd, and syntax-highlighted code blocks.
Kevin TrinhApril 27, 2026
Oracle Cloud's free tier is unreasonably good
An Always Free 4 vCPU / 24 GB ARM VM that you can keep forever — what I run on it, the gotchas, and why it's the cheapest backbone you can build on.
Kevin TrinhApril 12, 2026
Why I picked MDX over Notion as my CMS
Notion is a great writing surface and a terrible runtime. Here's why this site uses git-tracked MDX files instead, and when I'd flip the call.
Kevin TrinhApril 5, 2026
Building a private voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5
Wake-word detection, speech-to-text, an LLM, and text-to-speech — all running on an 8GB Pi for under 2 seconds end-to-end. Here's the stack.
Kevin TrinhMarch 30, 2026
Resume vs. CV — what to send and when
Quick guide to the actual difference between a resume and a CV — when each is expected, what goes on each, and a no-nonsense template.
Kevin TrinhMarch 22, 2026
What I wish I knew before starting CS at UH
An honest take from a current University of Houston CS student — the courses that matter, the ones that don't, and the side projects that actually moved the needle.
Kevin TrinhMarch 15, 2026
Supabase RLS: the policy patterns I actually use
Five Row-Level Security policies that cover 90% of real apps — owner-only, team-scoped, soft-delete, public read with private write, and admin override. Copy-paste ready.
Kevin TrinhFebruary 28, 2026